Litt om mine hobbyer

The battle of Hjørungavåg

1020 years ago Hjørungavåg was the site of maybe the most important and bloody sea battle in Norwegian history. The pagan earl Håkon with his 180 long ships ambushed the jomsvikings that were sent to kill him by the Danish king. Every other year this happens again, through the play "the struggle for power at Hjørungavåg".

This time we were hired to inhabit the viking market near by, for spectators to visit before and after the shows. And I must say - we are A LOT more authentic than the fake vikings in the play.

Lilja was the youngest among the vikings, but she sure knows how to defend herself! She's practising on her brother, thank god he has a spear, coz that archers sword is real. No safety rules around here. (Look, two birds now.)

And that goes double for Röda Masken, the juggler and flame eater. Lilja thinks it's safer if she holds her fingers in her ears. Especially when the big flames came. Masken has as his ambition to learn everything, and during the weekend I got him started on some nalbinding.

But I think Stig from Lund was the one with the most cash after the market. His silver replica jewellery is just soooo lovely, you'd want to buy it all!

If you look very closely, you'll notice Arve's new nalbinding gauntlets, made by me. They were finished during the weekend, and I made a trade for a whale tooth. I also made a deal with Georg for some of my recently plant dyed yarn, for silver earrings ;-)

And this was our little shop. We sold enough to cover the trip and make some investments of our own.

The kids were having fun with archery and sword fighting.

Even if the weather could have been better, we had a great weekend. The white tent is my latest sewing project, and still not finished. Hopefully it'll be finished for the next trip - just in case it rains again this summer. (Now, how likely is that in the west coast of Norway!!)

Yay! More viking pictures! I am SO totally into this...it is really fascinating. How often does your family do this? You have to show us more as you go along! P.S. My brother used to manage a ranch in Southern California where they would host Middle Age reenactments. It was really cool, but I don't remember seeing any vikings there.